Tura, July 24: Suicide cases continue to rock the Garo Hills with another man taking his life in Tura on Wednesday raising the death toll to four in less than a week.
A young man took his own life at Reserve Gittim locality of Tura on Wednesday. His death comes close on the heels of three others, including a woman, who took the extreme step.
The 24 year old woman jumped from a bridge into the Simsang river in Williamnagar, last Friday, and two days later a 42 year old man from Hawakahana locality of Tura and a 53 year old man from Dalu border town in West Garo Hills took their own lives.
Saree smuggling thwarted
Indian smugglers attempting to push in women’s clothing into neighbouring Bangladesh from the West Garo Hills border lost their consignment after alert police teams from Purakhasia outpost intercepted them on Tuesday night.
Purakhasia police on patrol duty near the border, sometime after 6 PM, intercepted a smuggling racket in which Indian smugglers were spotted attempting to navigate through the thick undergrowth carrying several large packets of items.
When challenged, the smugglers abandoned their goods and fled into the darkness. The goods were retrieved from the forests and on close inspection were found to contain over 200 ladies Sarees for illegal export into the neighbouring country.
On the same day, BSF troops on duty in adjoining Dalu border intercepted three trucks carrying sixty heads of cattle that were enroute to be smuggled into Bangladesh for consumption. The vehicles containing the cattle along with their drivers were detained by the border force and later handed over to West Garo Hills police at Dalu police station.
